TED Talks
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
TV-PG
2013 • E131 Jul 1, 2013 15mIt's a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientist, begs to differ. In this provocative, boundary-pushing talk, he asks his audience to consider that there's more than one way to run a successful modern nation.